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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Composite of views, including an elevated view of Sulloway Mills, and insets captioned "50 Years Ago" and "New Office Building." |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Group of women in U.S. Food Administration uniforms demonstrate food conservation methods to a group of men, women and children. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Display in the window of John J. Blied & Sons promoting victory gardens and featuring seed packets, hoes, and watering cans. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Window display in an unknown storefront featuring American flags, and silhouettes of Uncle Sam and Kaiser Wilhelm II and asking the question "Are you eatin... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Display in an unknown storefront urging food conservation. The display features small figures made out of vegetables. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Irene Castle holding one of her small Belgian Griffon dogs. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle and her director Frank Crane discussing a script on the set of either Vengence is Mine or Stranded in Arcady, two films they mad... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Lou Tellegen, Dutch-born actor, and Geraldine Farrar, American operatic soprano and silent film actress, and two canine friends. Tellegen and Farrar were m... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Taliaferro sits in an overstuffed chair and holds her pets still for the photographer. Original caption: "Mabel Taliaferro, Metro Star, in the library ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Mabel Trunnelle, player in Edison Company silent films from 1909, is dressed in a white sailor's suit and straw hat and holds a young goat. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "The soldiers in the trenches can well envy little 'Fluffy' the prized possession of Kathlyn Williams, Morosco-Paramount star. She is sh... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Members of the Root Commission trip to Russia playing "ship golf" on board the Buffalo. Original caption identifies the participants as: "Cyrus McCo... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Man identified in original caption as "Mr. Duncan" on board the ship Buffalo as part of the Root Commission's trip to Russia. A goat appears to be l... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Mogul Jr. 1 H.P. engine on a metal stand for display. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Stationary engines of various sizes mounted on skids or planks of wood. The engines appear to be situated among scaffolding and an unfinished wall at what ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Root Commission members seated aboard the deck of the Buffalo. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Rear view of the Buffalo in Vladivostok harbor, Russia. The ship was transporting members of the Root Commission. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Group of people at a railroad platform near the "Imperial train" used by the Root Commission as they traveled through Russia. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Group of people at a railroad station in Manchuria, gathered near the "Imperial train" that carried the Root Commission members through Russia. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Men standing at a train station in Harbin, Russia (now China). Original caption identifies the men as follows: "Dr. Mott, Mr. Moran, Mr. [?] (YMCA Gen'l Se... |
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